How to add live chat to your website in 5 minutes !!

Add live chat app to your website in minutes

Ashok Dasari
3 min readFeb 14, 2021

Pre-requisites:

  • Basic HTML
  • Flask Framework(Python)

Recently, I need a free chat app for my webpage, so I searched for some chat apps and finally I feel like tawk.to is good. It took less than 5 minutes to integrate into the webpage, up and running.

What is tawk.to?

Tawk.to is a free live chat app that lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website. Integrating this chat app to a website is pretty easy. All you have to do is create an account in tawk.to .

Why Live chat app is required for your webpage?

Earlier, we used email forms on our websites. So with the live chat apps, we don’t need to use email forms. Live chat apps enhance the user experience. Users like instant replies. Can Leave your desk or office without the fear of missing out on a potential sale because we can access it on the go.

How to Integrate live chat on your webpage!!

It’s so simple. Create an account in tawk.to . Sign in to your account. Go to the properties tab and Add property. Add the Site info and Instant code will be generated, copy the instant code, we will use it at a later point in time.

Add property
Add your property name, Site URL, Widget name
Copy the code to clipboard

Flask app structure

Directory structure
home.html
Flask APP code
After running the Flask app, your website will look like this

Add the copied code from tawk to home.html in the body tag and restart the flask app to make changes gets affected.

Now our chat app will run like a pro.

Live chat app Integration

You can access the code from here .

Alternatives to tawk.to

There are a lot more alternatives. Choose the chat apps based on your need

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Ashok Dasari
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